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Newspaper
Lorain County Reporter
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1892
Page
7
Instructions from the San Francisco Chronicle describe a farm and garden technique for moving large plants. The process specifies building a matching four-section box with iron rods, ensuring earth retention, watering, by passing rods through bored holes, and securing with nailed sides and a protective box cover.
Joseph Smith argues for green manuring using rye grown with clover and timothy, plowed down to feed stock and improve subsequent crops. He describes sowing rye in corn, pasture benefits, potato placement, and fallow timing, noting rye helps moisture retention and soil structure for future wheat and vegetables.
A New York institute speaker urges giving cows free access to salt, growing ornamental crabapples near homes, praising hog cleanliness, using muslin as hot-bed covering with waterproofing, and coating with a linseed egg mix. Also notes a potato preservative using dilute sulfuric acid, and advises deep, wide-tree planting with rich soil and proper staking and wrapping.
A historical note promotes tin rabbets for bee frame rests to reduce jarring in cool weather. It describes simple construction, alignment with hive top bars, and cheaper, easier manufacturing. The piece includes figures and measurements for proper fit to avoid pinching wires. Also pasted is fragmented data on horse capabilities and lifespan from an old agricultural journal.
An 19th century account describes hotel pilferage by guests and outsiders. Envelopes, paper, matches, toothpicks, blotting paper, ink bottles, soap, towels, tidies, sheets, and pillowcases are taken daily, with hotels noting guests exacting in their thefts. European and American hotels report widespread losses and systematic pilfering by strangers and some patrons.
A bold cow defends her newborn calf from a nocturnal leopard that scales a thatched shed roof. The calf hides as the mother drives the predator to its death, the leopard slain by the cow’s horns in a dramatic rural confrontation reported by Youth's Companion.
Poultney Bigelow extols the Danube as more picturesque than the Rhine. He praises its rugged, virgin rock and forest, fewer villas, and peasants on the bridges. He notes the Danube’s secluded nooks are best viewed from the water, contrasting with the Rhine’s suburban, visitor-saturated banks.
A scattered advert-like clipping promises a hundred dollars for a deafness cure by Hall's Cure and includes misedited postal and railroad notices for Velasco and Houston travel times. It also cites tonic boasts, rail ads, and patent medicine pitches for digestive and bronchial products, with brief travel and railway agent details interspersed.
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